Debatable

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

~ John Kenneth Galbraith

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So the conventions are over. Now we enter into the debate season. Well, the debate season after the other debate season. The conventions were about fear and hope. The debates will be about the same topics. 

I just have to remind myself that no matter how angry or disheartened I get, that this is how our system works. We don't always get the options we want - but sometimes we do. And sometimes we don't get what we thought we wanted, but we realize later what we got was what we needed - though sometimes we don't because we didn't. And no matter what leaders are people and they are fallible and they make mistakes - even if they don't always acknowledge those mistakes in the ways that we want.

And we have to be the best of America, not the lowest common denominator. And this is still a pretty good place to live. And we still have the chance and responsibility to vote. And we get to share our opinions (most of the time). And with freedom comes responsibility and our freedoms aren't absolute. 

We have to pay attention. We have to comment. We have to make sure our voices are heard in order to create transformative change. And by "we" I mean my brother Kirk and I.